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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Robbie Burns
Rabbie Burns
Scotland's favourite son
Ploughman Poet
Robden of Solway Firth
Bard of Ayrshire
The Bard
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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